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Hello in 2015! It’s been almost a month without an update for the beta channel! But have no fear, we have something for you at last.

There are couple of things worth mentioning for this build, let’s start with Chromium updates. Over the time of the holiday break two of them were pushed to Opera beta, and currently we are using 40.0.2214.69 version.

Our developers also fixed annoying bug that was happening on Facebook for our users using various IMEs – you should now be able to input characters without any problems. Crash fixes and other improvements are listed, as always, in our changelog.

Hello, talking about facebook fixes; What about the “open image and then close it returning you back to the start of the page” bug? That was mentioned in Opera 19 Known Issues, and it still exists. I even tried to use google chrome as UserAgent but it still misbehaves. It’s something wrong on your end I’m pretty sure.

Marcin Mitek

I cannot reporduce it on my machine atm. Few questions to you then:
– does it reproduce on clean profile?
– do you have any extensions enabled? If yes, does it reproduce without them?

There, it was listed there so you (Well at least someone) was aware of this issue.

I have a clean installation of O28 (Dev) and i can repro it there. No extensions. I use 27 (beta) for daily browsing and thus it’s not a clean profile + i have quite a few extensions. Triggering here too. I’ve had this issue for as long as i remember. Seems pretty weird that someone has been aware of this but it still exists :/

I can give you more info if needed, I’d guess you have an internal bug for it somewhere tho. Win7x64 btw.

crasher / Steven

Same problem for me.
I am using Dev-release on Win8.1×64

Marcin Mitek

Thanks for your efforts. We will look closely at it. Maybe the issue isn’t as common as it used to be (when it was reproducible for all).

There, decided to even record it. In that video i used O27, and i had just deleted facebook.com cookies + refreshed the page with SHIFT-F5. Tried without any extensions, still triggered. In this video i had extensions. The same thing happens in O28 (completely clean profile). Idk if i’m the only one having this problem.

SQL

Sorry, it seems to be caused by the Experimental web platform features flag, but i don’t recall ever enabling it (+it was enabled in my fresh installation of 28 too, which seems weird.)

Marcin Mitek

No problem. I am glad that it works. (without that flag)

Leonardo Gomes

Do you have “Enable experimental Web Platform features” enabled by chance?

SQL

I actually had, is it enabled by default? Since it was enabled in my fresh installation of 28 also. Disabling it fixes the issue, thanks!

loxiw

Is stable 27 coming soon or will it be delayed ~2 weeks for holidays? Just to know =)

Thanks

Marcin Mitek

There will be a little longer wait, because of holidays, but overall it is shaping up nicely and coming soon 🙂

… Seriously, is “better” speed, reliability, compatibility, features, web technology support, …? And how the hack would you measure that in percent?!
Read 27’s changelog (linked above) and you will know which improvements there are over previous version.

Well for me I guess it’s not that much improvement. So overall it’s just 5% better than 26 for me. LOL….

Marcin Mitek

I think Apple does that when announcing new products. “It’s 40% thinner people! 35.7% faster! 21% cooler!” and everyone goes crazy. We could post some synthetic benchmarks or maybe make a video like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaT7thTxyq8.

I reported something extremely similar logged as DNA-29843. Bing’s CSS has been messed up in Opera dev on my Win7 for a while, I’ll have to see if I can reproduce on a fresh copy.

I can’t reproduce on Opera beta on Win10

L33t4opera

Hi, this is a browser sniffing fault, if you install the “User-Agent Switcher“, and change the UA eg. to “Firefox on Windows”, it will display the webpage the same as it is shown in the second screenshot 😉

senja1

I know, but I dont want to use that.

sgrandin

On installation and default opening, dpi settings in Properties don’t take. Have to close and reopen to get them.

Still holding my breath for print preview scaling and toolbar placing options to make this the full-function browser that very long in the tooth Opera 12 is.

Are you talking about Opera 27? 😉 This screenshot looks like Opera 28 for me… 🙂 Please note that we usually do only bugfixes in Opera beta. Opera developer is a place where features are developed, evaluated, and, sometimes, disappear.

let’s skip this useless comment and focus on feedback ?
Every version undergoes stabilization in beta channel and you wanting to skip versions will not change anything on that process. So please stop re-posting.

This piece of sarcasm is private property. I’m not working for Opera.

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26 == 27 in functionality, deliberately skipping meaningless changes because for user they are completely unnoticeable, so let’s skip this version and focus on big changes from user point of view not developer, me and probably most users are not interested what is under the hood

we want results, we want opera back not some chrome like crap

or at least chrome like opera with functions that old opera had, directs this word to Opera employees

skipping a version only means one thing: it’s gonna take just as long to finish the next version (28) and all changes in this one (27) which could already be available to users will be delayed. So there’s no gain at all. EOT.

rabe85

Can you please add a warning, if a download hasn’t finished and i close opera?

I have Opera 27.0.1689.44 and my session.db file is 40MB. I always have a lot of tabs open so I tried deleting the session.db file and re-opening all my tabs and again the sessio.db file has grown. Theres also a one second lag when I open or close a tab and I can hear my HDD is busy.

Chamelleon

I don’t know is it bug but when I try to open http://mgsm.pl/, Opera adds www to address and when it looks like http://www.mgsm.pl/ I can’t enter this portal. When I delete www on address bar portal works ok. Tested on Chrome and only Opera adds www to address automatically.

escruting

It seems the problem with https page loading has returned. It says it couldnt load the page, but you reload and it loads fine. Happening a lot lately.

TrustNo1

Still same problem with aliexpress.com while using latest Opera 27.0.1689.54 🙂